Tony,
Right on #1 -- mine was off-white with red interior,
broken right side door handle!
But I protest -- the 122S was a GREAT car! Superior to the
444 in every way but style, a classic in the sense that people
ignore ugly old cars just the same as they ignore ugly new cars.
I autocrossed mine once, at Pleasanton as I recall,
in the '70s or '80s.
Jerry
Jerry Mouton mailto:jerry@moutons.org Laissez les bons temps
rouler!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Anthony Tabacco" <atabacco@california.com>
To: "Dennis Hale" <dhale_510@yahoo.com>
Cc: <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 11:36 PM
Subject: Re: Volvo 444
> Dennis, Dennis, Dennis. All 444s were off-white. They all came with red
> interiors. And they all had a broken right door latch. Even if (it after
all
> being the sixties), we had by some chemically induced nocturnal
> miscalculation, inadvertently driven off with Aunt Minnie's Mercury, there
> would still be that split flat plate windshield between us and the night.
> The sad truth is that virtually all the 444s were actually owned by people
> who have come over the years to be associated with this list. Is that cool
> or what? All 544s were owned by junior high school English teachers. This
is
> not commonly known, but it is none the less true.The 122 is noteworthy for
> reasons that must be lost to non-PBS subscribers.
> Tony
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dennis Hale" <dhale_510@yahoo.com>
> To: <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 6:23 PM
> Subject: Re: Volvo 444
>
>
> > Are you guys sure you all had 444s? They were pretty
> > uncommon in the USA. The first ones in were '67s, I
> > don't think we got any '65 or earliers. By '69 they
> > had become 544s and were fairly common. 444s had small
> > round glass lens taillights, a big chrome center in
> > the dashboard, and a two piece windsheild. 544s had
> > oval plastic taillights, a dash without the '50
> > Mercury looking chrome center, and a curved one piece
> > windsheild. Some got a nice 4 speed gearbox with gears
> > interchangeable with Ford Mustang V8 gearboxes, way
> > strong! The old three speeds were weak. The 1600cc 3
> > mainbearing engine grew to 1800cc in '61 or '62 and
> > got a full 5 main bearing crank, again a big
> > improvememnt. The 122 replaced the 544 in '64 I think,
> > but then again they may have been sold together for a
> > couple of years. There also were 445 wagons, but I do
> > not recall any 545 wagons.
> > Wix has just stopped supplying the air filters, I have
> > been useing them on 510s.
> > Before 510s and Beetles I had a 544 problem. My '59
> > went almost 500,000 miles. I also had a '57, '58, and
> > a 445 wagon that never actually ran but had very nice
> > wooden slats and panelling inside.
> > I still have a set of hubcaps hung in the garage, and
> > a paper weight rear main bearing part of my broken
> > crankshaft [three main 544].
> > 8-)
> >
> > =====
> > Dennis Hale
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